As Canadian developer Inflexion Games has now announced, the open-world survival crafting game Nightingale, which is released today, will run on Linux from the start. Even better support for the free operating system and the associated official status Steam Deck Verified are already in the works, as there is corresponding demand from the players.
Source: Inflexion Games (Screenshot: PCGH) In a corresponding pre-launch update on the in-house blog, the developers commented in detail on the support of their game for Linux as well as the gaming handheld Steam Deck and its gaming operating system SteamOS, which have been available from the start all should be operational. Official certification via Valve as “Steam Deck Verified” will probably take some time.
We've received a lot of questions about whether Steam Deck will be supported at launch.
Technically, Nightingale can be launched and played on the Steam Deck, with the limitations on controller support mentioned above, but we don't expect it to be officially supported at launch.
This means that we will not be offering customer support for issues with the Steam Deck at launch, as it is still considered an unofficial platform at this time.
We are working towards full Steam Deck support and will provide an update once this status is confirmed.
If you have a Steam Deck, feel free to play Nightingale on it and provide us with feedback or bug reports, but please indicate that you are playing on a Steam Deck to make it easier for our team to recreate the game internally.
Other Linux versions are also not officially supported at the moment, but we would be happy if you report your errors to us and let us know which version you are having problems with.
The author has already tried out the game as part of Early Access on the Steam Deck with SteamOS and on the desktop PC with Nobara Linux 39 and, apart from the manual controller settings, Nightingale was already extremely stable and very performant under Linux. Steam Deck Verified status is unlikely to be difficult to achieve. The situation is currently different with FidelityFX Super Resolution (“FSR”) 3, which still causes crashes.
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Sources: Inflexion Games